Garry Hagberg

Garry Hagberg is the James H. Ottaway Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at Bard College, and has also held a Chair in the School of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia. Author of numerous papers at the intersection of aesthetics and the philosophy of language, his books include Meaning and Interpretation: Wittgenstein, Henry James, and Literary Knowledge (Cornell 1994), Art as Language: Wittgenstein, Meaning, and Aesthetic Theory (Cornell 1995), and Describing Ourselves: Wittgenstein and Autobiographical Consciousness (Oxford 2008). He is editor of Fictional Characters, Real Problems: The Search for Ethical Content in Literature (Blackwell 2008), Art and Ethical Criticism (Wiley 2010), and Wittgenstein on Aesthetic Understanding (Springer 2017). Co-editor of A Companion to the Philosophy of Literature (Blackwell 2009) and Editor of the journal Philosophy and Literature, Hagberg is presently writing a new book, Living in Words: Literature, Autobiographical Language, and the Composition of Selfhood, and editing a volume, Stanley Cavell on Aesthetic Understanding. He is also writing two other books, one on the depiction of self-constitution in film, and another on aesthetic issues in jazz improvisation. He has performed on about a dozen CDs as a jazz guitarist, and is co-author, with Howard Roberts, of the three-volume Guitar Compendium: Technique, Improvisation, Musicianship, Theory published by Advance Music/ Schott.